Loose leaf teas offer several environmental advantages over traditional tea bags:

• Reduced Packaging Waste: Loose leaf teas often come in larger, reusable containers like tins or pouches made from recyclable paper. Tea bags, on the other hand, usually contain some plastic or synthetic materials, making them less biodegradable.
• Compostable Tea Leaves: After you’ve enjoyed your tea, the loose leaves themselves are compostable! They add valuable nutrients, particularly nitrogen, to your compost pile which helps nourish your plants.
• More Efficient Use of Leaves: Loose leaf tea allows the leaves more room to unfurl and release their full flavour. This means you often need less tea per cup compared to tea bags … and, some loose leaf teas can be steeped more than once!
• Lighter Transport Footprint: Loose leaf teas take up less space and weigh less than the equivalent tea bags. This translates to less fuel being used to transport the tea, resulting in lower carbon emissions.

Teapots with built-in strainers offer the best of both worlds – the authentic flavour of the full leaf combined with the convenience of a teabag. You don’t need an external tea strainer, the teapot does it all for you.